Arrangement for simultaneously displaying on one or more display terminals a series of images
First Claim
1. An arrangement for displaying a series of images comprisingat least one display unit, said display unit having a display whose resolution is insufficient for simultaneously displaying each of said series of images,means, responsive to a request entered by a user of said arrangement, for forming, in accordance with a predetermined reduction ratio, a spatially reduced copy of each of said series of images and for simultaneously displaying each such copy on said at least one display unit, andmeans thereafter responsive to another request entered by said user for simultaneously displaying on said display in full spatial resolution that one of said displayed series of images at which a screen cursor is positioned including a predetermined number of succeeding ones of said displayed series of images.
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Abstract
A picture archiving and communication system having a number of display units associated therewith is provided with an image display arrangement for simultaneously displaying all of the images of a series of related images. Typically, the number and resolution of the images in a series exceeds the capacity of the display units. Consequently, only a small number of the images may be simultaneously displayed on the display units. To deal with this, the display arrangement of the present invention spatially reduces each image of the series so that all them may be simultaneously displayed on the display units. Thereafter, if the user desires to display one or more of the images in full spatial resolution, then all that the user needs to do is mark those images in a predetermined manner and enter a particular request.
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8 Claims
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1. An arrangement for displaying a series of images comprising
at least one display unit, said display unit having a display whose resolution is insufficient for simultaneously displaying each of said series of images, means, responsive to a request entered by a user of said arrangement, for forming, in accordance with a predetermined reduction ratio, a spatially reduced copy of each of said series of images and for simultaneously displaying each such copy on said at least one display unit, and means thereafter responsive to another request entered by said user for simultaneously displaying on said display in full spatial resolution that one of said displayed series of images at which a screen cursor is positioned including a predetermined number of succeeding ones of said displayed series of images.
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6. An arrangement for displaying a series of images, said arrangement comprising
a plurality of terminals each having a display of a predetermined resolution, means operative for creating, in accordance with a predetermined reduction ratio, spatially reduced copies of respective ones of said series of images, for forming said copies into respective groups of copies based on the order in which they are created, and for displaying said groups on respective ones of said display terminals, and means, thereafter responsive to a request entered by a user of said arrangement, for forming into respective other groups of images that one of said displayed copies at which a displayed cursor is positioned including a predetermined number of succeeding ones of said displayed copies and for displaying said other groups in full spatial resolution on respective ones of said plurality of display terminals.
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